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i AURORA TURF NOTES ] 4 § F. T. Miller, who has worked as outrider at the Aurora meeting, has been given the same assignment at Bainbridge and will ship Gay Prince to the Cleveland track after Saturdays racing. Jockey Johnny Leyland, who has been inactive for nearly a week, resumed riding Thursday. Lon Jones, senior in the L Jones and Sons stable, unloaded the Derby candidate Fair Rochester and a couple of two-year-olds. J. T. Looneys Sweeprush, in charge of Trainer J. Shea, made the trip in the same van. A car containing sixteen horses, the property of Al Luzader, J. J. Flanigan and Milton Reiser got away for Bainbridge Park Wednesday night. They shipped via the Pennsylvania railroad. There will probably be a ten-car special leave Exposition Park for Bainbridge Saturday night, if the plans of Mr. Pryor, agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad, materialize. Octave Viau, L. K. Rogers, Tim Smith, J. and T. Coffey, H. Haney, Frank Grand, B. Hernandez, Bert Pomeroy, A. D. Steele, T. Westrope, Ben Suhr, Sam Orr, J. Bronnen-berg, Willie Lutz, J. Burks, Dr. E. E. Watson, Z. A. Marone, Fortier Brothers, and F. T. Miller have arranged for transportation for their horses, and many others are expected to file their orders for cars today. Condition books for the first seven days of the impending Riverside Park meeting were received at Exposition Park and were distributed among the horsemen. The meeting, which is scheduled to run thirty-three or more days, will be inaugurated Saturday, May 27, under the supervision of William P. Kyne, who is general manager. There is no purse less than 00 and they range up to ,000. The track which has been rebuilt and modeled into a one-mile course, ranks among the best racing plants in the West. Joseph Bydoler, prominent Buffalo sportsman, is an arrival and will remain in Chicago for an indefinite period. Hughie Gatens, one of the ablest mutuel department managers in the business and who is now in charge of the information window at Exposition Park, is reported to be in line for an important mutuel position at one of the Eastern tracks. Gatens has been prominently identified with Oriental Park, Bowie, Laurel, Pimlico and Havre de Grace in the East. He has been assistant manager of the mutuels at Arlington Park since that track opened and also held a similar position at Washington Park. «
